eComStation 2.0 beta 1 is available for eCS Software Subscribers. The most significant updates on this beta version are: SNAP/ENT, the special licensed version of SNAP by Serenity is in there, we boot SNAP directly from CD-ROM; bootable JFS, this version is able to install on bootable JFS volumes; ACPI, this version installs and detects ACPI.

I think such people forget that OS/2 was just about the only alternative OS for x86 folks in the early 1990's, and that many of tbe folks (like myself) who still use it were hobbyists back then just as we still are now.

It isn't unfamiliarity with other OSes that keeps us on OS/2 -- it's the fact that we're quite familiar with the various Linux, Windows, BSD, and BeOS alternatives and we still find them lacking features we already have (and want to continue to have).

A lot of OS/2 folks were willing to make the trade-offs required and move to Linux on the desktop over the past several years. Not me. I'm halfway there (Linux is my firewall and fileserver OS of choice), and distros like Ubuntu (actually Kubuntu) and DSL make me optimistic, but as long as OS/2 (or eCS) is a better fit for me I ain't going anywhere. :-) No reason to -- it works!